This is my ninth year of having students create their own blogs. Initially, the student blogs were nothing more than a class journal posted online. They were digital notebooks. However, over time, they became a place for student voice. They evolved as my thinking about…
I don’t think I’ve ever known anyone else who uses a spreadsheet as a calendar. For me, it works, though. I have the date, the day, the task or event, the type of task and the location. For recurring events, I simply write “every week”…
I know that all tools are technically technology. However, for the purpose of this post, I’m thinking computers, tablets and mobile devices. This is not a comprehensive list and I admit that it’s limited entirely to my own experiences and my own local context: #1:…
Christy and I are picking orange blossoms. Unlike the desert plants, the blossoms don’t affect my allergies one bit. Between the heavy scent and the thrill of dodging bees, it is hard to imagine that anything else exists in our world beyond the moment. We…
I wrote this after reading a thought-provoking post on the Spicy Learning Blog. When I first began blogging, I felt like a lone Luddite in a techno-wilderness. While writing about the greatest “killer apps” (sadly, not nun-chucks), I wrote about the need for technology criticism….
I’m a professor and a maker. Sometimes I make things. Sometimes I make a difference. On a good day, I get to do both.
